DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAM! —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HODY FOUND. HAMILTON". .March 3. The skeleton of a man wtis found in some scrub beside the railway line, two miles south of Hamilton. The man had probably been dead for two years. A fire bad passed through the scrub and only the remains of the clothing were left. The remains lOve not been identified. STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED. HASTINGS, March 3. This morning Leonard Llewlyn Grant, aged 33. was charged with stealing a cash box containing cheques and money valued at £sfio 11s Bd, the property of Lusk, Spence and Dedenne, •solicitors. Ho v*-i.s remanded till next Wednesday. The cash box was discovered in a coal heap at the rear of a billiard saloon early this morning. The cheques were intact- and all the cMslt was accounted for except a few shillings. COUNCIL OF WOMEN. CHRISTCHURCH, 'March 3. At the National Council of Women a- motion was moved that the Minister of .Justice be asked to caution

magistrates and newspaper proprietors against making -public certain fen- . hires of court rases in regard to do- 1 most it;. tragedies, particularly those in which mothers in a state of mental ; unbalance .attempt to murder their c children. After discussion during which the delegates praised the tone of New Zealand papers, the motion was amended to read that legislation should be passed to prohibit news- t papers publishing the details referred to, and was carried. j GRAIN DESTROYED. CHRISTCHURCH. March 3. An outbreak of lire, the origin ot ( which is a mystery, destroyed a large - quantity of threshed barley and -seriously dlunaged a still larger quantity oil .Mr IV. Lochbead's larm, "'Altonbrook." Southbridgc, on Mond.iy morning. Of 2500 bushels of grain in the paddock about half was either totally I destroyed or so badly scorched as to render it until for anything but pig feed. t

N.Z. WINNER OF SCREEN CONTEST. AUCKLAND, .March 3. .Mi.-s Billie Anderson, of Auckland, lias been now declared the New Zealand winner of the First National sorern contest. She goes to .Melbourne, where the Australian iinal will tie iteeiiierl. YOUTHS CHARGED TV I Til THEFT. AUCKLAND, March 3. At the I’oliee Court Allred Turnbull, aged 17, and another youth of .similar ago whose name was ordered to lie suppressed was eiiarged with theiLs irom simps, oighuen charges being against Turnbull, including an attempt to break and enter Morrinsvillo Railway Station. Both pleaded guilty. Until youths were of respectable families, but Turnbull was stated to be one of tlio more a< live members of the gang of young thieves. Turnbull was sent to the Supreme Court lor trial. Tie other youth was lined 25 and ordered to make restitution. The reason givi n for the suppression was that the boy lias a twin brother of excellent. character in a good situation. | I BISIIOI.’ OF LONDON. j RAL.MFRSTON N.. March 3. j His Lordship, the Bishop of Loudon, yesterday motored from Wellington to I’almii'ston North. lie proceeded to Flock House and the Diocesan School at .Marten. At both place the Bishop addressed the trainees and scholars, giving healthy advice. He later left lor the north by the Limited express. ’ I) FA 111 FROM GUNSHOT. ! DUNEDIN. March 2. At nine o'clock this morning a single man. named Colin Campbell, -iged twenty-two, was admitted to the hospital with a severe gunshot wound ill bis fice. lie was placed on Hie dangerously ill list and died at 1.30 this afternoon.

, i Campbell had told his mother tlmi ! he was going into tin hack yard to .'slu.-Ot a eat. and later she found him . lying on the ground with a wound in i his face. •j THICKET IN OTAGO, j 'j DEN EDEN. March 2. j A public meeting was hold to-night j for the purpose of inaugurating a. j movement for improving: local cricket grounds and securing guarantees for payment of a coach. Between seventy and eighty attended, including many prominent citizens. The urgent need for ell’ecting an improvement in grounds and securing proper coaching for the younger players was stressed. Tt was stated that about COD had already been guaranteed towards the coach fund and a .strong committee was set up to secure additional guarantees, the idea being to raise at. least £llOO a year for three years. It was also decided to ask representatives of sports bodies to report to the City Council on the question of sports grounds generally. The Mayor expressed sympathy with the movement and said the City Council would do all it could to assist. MATERNAL MORTALITY. CHRISTCHURCH. March 3. The need for hospital-hoards to take steps to reduce the incidence of maternal mortality in the country districts was emphasised by the Minister of Health, the Hon ,T. A. Young, in his opening address to the annual conference of the New Zealand Hospital Hoards’ Association yesterday. For the year 1025, the Dominion lost 131 mothers through puerperal causes, said the Minister. That 131 was satisfactory hy comparison, as the total in 1022 had been 149, while in lb' same period, the pnulatiou had increased by 77,000 people. The greater degree of maternal mortality was in the country districts. People were generally healthier in tlie country districts than in the towns, so that it was not their locality that was the cause of the trouble. For the actual cause, it was a technical matter and it was one for experts to handle. “But, as students of the social position of the country, we find that in 1922 01 mothers died in the towns and 85 in the rural areas.” said Mr Young. “In 1925, ol died in tlfe towns and 80 in the country, so there is much work to lie done there.”

Tt was a problem that had to be faced. Hospital Boards had established maternity wards, but they must not stop there. Where there were maternity wards in the country, there was also the need for ante-natal clinics, where women could be exam”

prior to child-birth and where medical officers could take steps to remove anything that was likely to have a serious effort on the lives of the mothers and children. “The host immigrants we have in New Zealand are those who are born and bred in the Dominion.” said Mr Young in conclusion. ESCAPEE RECAPTFRED. WELLINGTON. Mhrch 2. The prisoner Campbell, who escaped from the Mount Crawford prison about, a fortnight ago. was recaptured tonight. Since the man’s escape from custody a careful watch was maintained hy the officers of maol. and their vigilance was rewarded to-night when the officer in charge apprehended the escapee in Webb Street in the city. RECORD CARGOES. CHRISTCHURCH. March 1. It will be a bad day for the under-

writers if the steamer Cambridge, which is to leave Eyttelton to-morrow for Home ports, does not tie up safely, for she will carry one of the most valuable shipments of produce from the Dominion evc-r exported. In shipping circles in Lyttelton the value is believed to be a record for the Dominion. The vessel belongs to the Federal Line, but at present is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company. Ltd. She is to leave for London and West of England ports with a full load of wool, lamb, mutton, butter and cheese. The Port Napier, which was dispatched on Friday for London, was a full ship, and the Shaw, Savill. and Albion Company's Mahana, which is to sail for London on Thursday, wH also carry a considerable amount of cargo. The value of the combined cargo of the three vessels will reach £2,000.000 The Port Napier’s cargo consisted of 108,962 carcasses of lambs. 50,376 carcasses of mutton, 14,626 bales of wool 4027 boxes of butter 'and a large quantity of sundries.